Questions tagged [dell-poweredge]
PowerEdge is the name that Dell has given to its server product line.
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R630 Will Install Only Linux OS
R630 server will successfully install only Linux OS's.
Windows Server 2012R2 or 2022 installation is able to see the drive to which to install and even format it, however, it would not install by ...
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Dell R630 State for Firmware Upgrade
On which state does the R630 needs to be in order to perform a firmware upgrade using iDRAC?
What should be on the monitor connected directly to the server to safely apply the update ?
What extension ...
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New drive Poweredge T340
Maybe a dumb question. In order to install a extra 3.5" drive I must shutdown the server and install? Or can I pop-out a front bay and install while powered on? And later format the new drive.
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perccli: How to check the pdcache status for a virtual drive?
The perccli utility (doc page) has an option to set the "pdcache" option, where pdcache means physical drive cache (although I can't find where that's actually defined). From the docs, the ...
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After disk reinstallation 2 disks in RAID1 became foreign // PowerEdge r720
I'm a newbie in DELL servers, so need your advice.
First of all, we have PowerEdge r720 with 4 HDDs, two 2TB SAS with RAID 1 and two SAS 1TB in RAID 1 too.
After the 1 of the HDD was plugged out and ...
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Why does my Dell server BIOS asks for the BIOS password during a regular reboot?
I have a Dell PowerEdge T350 server. I enabled TPM and Secure Boot as well. For these I needed to specify a BIOS password (which I would have done anyway). What startles me is that the server keeps ...
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Swapped in new SAS drive, RAID still shows degraded, what next?
I need to replace a failed RAID 1 drive on an ancient PowerEdge 2950. The old drive was throwing amber warning lights with the LED showing error 1810.
I have a new SAS drive installed and the ...
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Port Mapping - Dell FX2s Chassis with Cisco Nexus\FEX Switches
having some trouble with doing remote port mapping with dell FX2s chassis and fc430 blades\sleds.
the goal is to figure out what are the ports in nexus switches\cisco fex that the dell chassis 10Gb ...
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Dell R620 - problems with boot order [duplicate]
I have an "old" Dell R620 that in a previous life was used as a EXI host. The machine has a 1G SD card with which had the VMware software on it. I have now installed linux on the HD.
The ...
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How to find the cause of a server kernel panic?
Our high-load server is in kernel panic. How can we identify the cause and correct it?
It is a Dell PowerEdge R940 with 256GB ram and 20TB disk array with the root in a SSD disk.
Linux CentOs 7 system....
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Unable to Boot After Cloning Windows Server Datacenter 2022 to a New SSD
I have a Dell R720 server running Windows Server Datacenter 2022, and the disk containing the operating system has bad tracks that spread over time.
To migrate the OS,
I used DiskGenius to clone all ...
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Is it a bug that Dell's iDRAC uses certificate subject "idrac-SVCTAG"?
Connecting to a Dell PowerEdge R7415 server using IDRAC 9 (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller), I see that the default certificate's subject is "idrac-SVCTAG".
So all similar Dell ...
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ESXi Secure Boot VIB VMware_locker_tools-light_12.0.6.20104755-20491463 does not have signed XML data
[root@VMkernelPortESXiHost:~] /usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py -
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Secure boot CANNOT be enabled: All vib signatures verified. Failed to validate loaded tardisks: Errors:
[ValueError]
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What socket(s) does the aux power for a GPU come from in a PowerEdge T550?
Server: Dell PowerEdge T550 Tower Server
PSU: Single, Hot Plug, Non-Redundant Power Supply (1+0), 1100W, Mixed Mode Titanium
GPU: NVIDIA A40
Photos: https://www.reddit.com/user/bigboyserver/comments/...
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How to disable iDRAC status / alerts for absent PSU or input lost
I have a number of Dell PER740 servers running iDRAC 9 in a lab.
As they are in a lab, I only need/want/have capacity for one power supply connected to each server.
However, I cannot find a way to ...
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Dell PowerEdge t610 will not boot ESXI installer from USB
I downloaded the ESXI installer from VMWare for V8.
I checked and the MD5 matches with what's listed on the download.
I'm using a Mac to write the iso to a known working USB (using DD)
The server will ...
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Dell PowerEdge R720XD - Fans Ramp Up When Video Card is Installed [closed]
I have a Dell PowerEdge R720XD with 2x Xeon E5-2640 v2 (16 cores total), 16 GB of RAM, and 2x 3 TB hard drives. I have Windows 10 running on the machine.
When I connect a video card to the system, the ...
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RAID Disk shows foreign status after being removed and inserted into the wrong slot
First of all forgive me that my understanding of Dell RAID system is limited. I have a dell PowerEdge server with PREC H330 Mini controller with 6 of the 8 slot having a physical drive (each 2.182TB) ...
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Does vSphere ESXI Virtualization needs to be installed on root server or is it an application which can be installed inside an OS? [closed]
Recently I've bought Dell PowerEdge R620 Server. I am interested in running Windows Server 2022 as well as I am interested in running virtual machines using Virtualization. Now I know that Windows ...
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Using racadm to change from Dedicated to LOM1?
Is it possible to use racadm to change iDRAC config from the default dedicated port to one of the server's main NIC/LOM ports?
There is relatively little in the documentation beyond configuring the ...
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How to activate HD indicator lights on Dell PowerEdge 710 in Linux
I have a particular drive that is failing (/dev/sdb)
I need to replace the failed drive but I am not sure which it is... I should have documented what drives were in what slots and what their devs ...
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Dell R640 NVMe backplane connectors
I am trying to figure out the R640 NVMe backplane.
How it looks right now. The goal is to use the NVMe drives in front bays and use HBA to connect to external enclosure.
So I am trying to figure out ...
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Issue with idrac9 keyboard
I am using idrac9 virtualconsole (PowerEdge R440) with ubuntu 20.04 with kernel 5.4.0-65. The issue is, virtualconsole doesn't respond(across reboots) to keystrokes from virtual keyboard as well local ...
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Dell Poweredge R640 - System BIOS has halted
I'm running pfSense on a Dell Poweredge R640, but after upgrading to the latest bios, it has trouble booting.
The attached picture says that LBR is not available.
Any idea what that means and how to ...
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Dell PE RHEL 7 terrible performance
We have an 'old' Dell PE r740xd server with quite high specs, installed with rhel 7 (latest).
Running ls -l on / can take minutes.
Some specs:
# lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): ...
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Upgrading T410 w/Perc 6i to Windows Server 2022
I have a PowerEdge T410 with a Perc 6/i configured with a Raid5 array.
It is running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter and hosts several Hiper-V vms. Due to contractual obligations, we need to upgrade to ...
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ESXi: Changing Port for Management Network
I bought a 10 Gbps NIC and installed it in my Dell PowerEdge 540 that's running ESXi 6.7. I would like to use a port on the new NIC for my management network.
I swapped the ethernet cable to the new ...
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How to remove a Raid 1 subgroup from a Raid 10 array?
I have a RAID 10 array with 3 subgroups of drives in RAID 1, like in the image below
Raid 10
Is it possible to remove an entire subgroup (2 disks) without losing the entire Array? The RAID 10 will ...
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How are Serial Communications designed to be connected virtually on Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers?
Im trying to figure out what exactly can be configured by the first three settings on Dell PowerEdge R720 Server BIOS's Serial Communications Screen.
Let me explain what (I think) I have understood:
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Dell R640 onboard SAS and SATA connectors
Dell R640 / R740 system boards have seven or eight onboard SATA and SAS connectors, presumably usable for connecting HDDs & SSDs without a PERC controller. In the "System board jumpers and ...
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How can I regain access to a RAID volume that I deleted from PERC in the Dell Life Cycle controller?
I'm using a Dell PowerEdge R820 with PERC H710 adapter
I had RAID 0 configured across two 1TB SSDs, Drive A and Drive B. I recently bought a 5TB HDD, Drive C. Today, I was attempting to create a RAID ...
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RAM placement issue on R710
I have 16GB RAMs, each 2GB. I don't know how to place them in order. Please help me out.
It shows error when I go to System Setup about DIMMs being incorrect.
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ESXi does not show drives for second RAID controller with NVMe drives
I got a second RAID controller (AVAGO 9440-8i) to put in my Dell T440 server (first RAID controller is a H740P). I got the Broadcom U.2 enabler cable and two WD Gold 2TB drives.
I've updated ESXi, the ...
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SUSE Linux ES 15 SP1 rebooting, how to find out why
I am managing a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 system and it will randomly reboot. A few months ago I opened a case with Dell support and we upgraded all firmware available for the system. The ...
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You have not defined a root partition / which is required for installation of Centos to continue
I am facing the following issue while doing an automated installation of Centos7 with kickstart.cfg
I used the following options in the kickstart file
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
logvol / --...
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iDRAC: Does racadm have some kind of "echo" command?
I'm writing some scripts to automate the interaction with racadm sessions. Sometimes I need to show some info messages to the users, like Will retry in 30 seconds. For now I just use an unknown ...
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Is it possible to set up R730xd split zoning with HBA330 + PERC rather than 2x PERC?
For an r730xd configured with split zoning backplane (not the flex bay, im talking a 4/20 split zoning of the main backplane with the flex zone option) is it a supported configuration to use (for ...
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iDRAC9: The disk ID returned by "get storage.physicalDisk" cannot be recognized for boot sequence
I'm using iDRAC9 (v5.10.10.00) on PowerEdge R750.
get storage.physicalDisk shows it has a disk AHCI.SL.6-1:
racadm>> get storage.physicalDisk
Storage.physicalDisk.1 [Key=Disk.Bay.0:Enclosure....
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ESX hosts crash within same vcenter cluster
I have a vcenter cluster of 12 ESX hosts (ClusterA) and another cluster of 3 ESX hosts (ClusterB). All of these are a mix of poweredge r620s and r630s.
Some of the hosts have hardware errors that can ...
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Dell PowerEdge R410: Format SAS NetApp drives to 512B sector size for use in RAID
Thanks for helping out. Some time ago I got two 400GB NetApp drives for use in my Poweredge server. I attempted for a while to get them to work but they would not join a RAID disk group. I found this ...
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Raid 5 with hot spare (17+1) somehow became Raid 5 without hot spare (18 + 0)? (Dell Poweredge T640)
So recently we have been having strange RAID storage server issues.
The most recent issue I have no idea what could be going on.
config is Raid 5; 17 + 1 (17 disk volume + 1 dedicated hot spare)
A ...
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Restoring Win server 2008 from full back up?
I'm having trouble of restoring win server 2008, can anyone help me.
First of all, i got the Power Edge 2900 running raid 1 with 3 disk. Power outage happend, and 2 disks are gone -slot0 and slot1 (...
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Dell PowerEdge R410 freezing up
A PowerEdge R410 that was working fine for years started freezing up last week. It's running Ubuntu 20.04 and sometimes it will come back. When it did on a most recent freeze, the dmesg log shows the ...
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Transferring RAM from Dell T110 to Dell T1650
I have a Dell T110 II with 32GB of RAM (4 sticks) and a Dell T1605 with 16GB of RAM (4 sticks).
Would it be possible to take the RAM from the T110 and transfer it to the T1650? They appear to have the ...
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Dell R815 power button does not turn off
I have powered my R815 on/off using DRAC. That works fine.
But today I had some physical maintenance, and wanted to use the power button. I can turn on the server using the button, but I cannot turn ...
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What is the impact of unbalanced memory on a Bulldozer Opteron server?
I have a PowerEdge R815 with quad Opteron 6272 and a faulty DIMM slot at A2. The system still boots with no DIMM installed there, but with warnings of an invalid memory configuration. I can silence ...
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Changing RAID1 HDDs (Dell PowerEdge R430) to another identical server
I'm new with server configuration and infrastructure.
If I have two identical servers (PowerEdge R430), one for spare without HDDs (call it S1), and another online with the HDDs (S2). If I remove the ...
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Does the Dell PowerEdge R240 support booting from M.2 NVMe drives?
Did anybody try whether the Dell PowerEdge R240 (or the 14th generation in general) supports booting from M.2 NVMe disks inserted through some (non-Dell) PCIe-M.2-adapter card? Dells manual doesn't ...
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DELL VRTX - M620 Blade - Both NICs "Unidentified Network"
I have a DELL VRTX with two M620 Blades. I have an issue with one of the Blades. Both NICs come up with "Unidentified network". I got the server 2.5 years ago and run Hyper-V on the Blades. ...
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Amber light on Powervault md3060e
While doing maintenance on another server I noticed an amber light on one draw of a Powervault md3060e (linked to a Poweredge r720d).
There is no amber light for the drives of the draw. Every drives ...
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